- 2025-12-24
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MUSIC
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Jenny Palacios Releases New Song “IYKYK”
Toronto-based pop rock singer-songwriter Jenny Palacios released a new song “IYKYK” on November 25, 2025.
The song is her third single of 2025, following “Took” and “Back of My Hand”.
The track is an honest, nostalgic, and playfully self-deprecating anthem for anyone who’s grown up without growing into themselves.
It was written by Jennifer Palacios, Robert Licandro, and Kyle Marchant who also produced the track.
The accompanying music video was directed by Jenny Palacios and Matt Guarrasi.
Jenny Palacios said of the song, “I’ve always wanted to write a song called ‘IYKYK’ - I just really like the phrase, but funny enough, this song didn’t start with that in mind. I had written a lot of lines about constantly feeling so awkward and out of place – just stuff that you’re kind of meant to figure out before you’re a grown adult. I’m always in places where everyone else knows exactly what to say or do next. I started asking myself, ‘Is this a unique experience?’ I knew I couldn’t be the only one with this kind of arrested development, so ‘IYKYK’ felt fitting. It’s like a plea to the weird kids who are now weird adults.”- She continued, “There are so many guitars on this song. The tones Kyle dialed really strike that 2000s rock-ballad, loser-anthem kind of world. We spent hours just writing riffs based on this one lead I had in the demo, and let ourselves get carried away with it. All three of us grew up in that era and were getting more and more stoked with the nostalgia of each riff that we just kept layering. We ended up with this almost arena-sounding but still playfully self-deprecating kind of track.”
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She added, “I’ve always been pretty insecure about my femininity as in how I carry myself as a woman. There are years of undetected damage from media consumption to address, but even in my everyday life, there are so many women who I look up to that just embody this specific certainty and confidence that I thought I’d have once I got older. I’m still waiting on it.”
- source : Apple Music
